Maleficent tells the story of “Sleeping Beauty”, this time from Maleficent point of view. The movie tells the story of her fairy childhood, showing the powers she had and the good purpose she was using them for. It continues to tell that after being betrayed by the boy she loved for the sake of power, Maleficent loses her wings and, driven by vengeance, uses her powers for evil. She visits her ex-lover, now king, and sets a spell on his newly born daughter that will put her into death-like sleep on her sixteenth birthday, with no other way to be broken, but a true love’s kiss. The movie will then portray the development of the relation between Maleficent and the girl as she grows older. On her sixteenth birthday, the power of the spell puts the girl into sleep, leaving Maleficent in regret, because according to her, true love does not exist, and the girl was never supposed to wake up from her sleep. Meanwhile the three good fairies that raised the girl tried to wake her up by bringing a guy to kiss her, but he fails. Maleficent, sadly observing the process, cries and promises to always protect the girl, and leans down and kisses her on the forehead. The sleeping beauty wakes up, showing that the kiss was a true love kiss, the love Maleficent developed for the girl as she watched her grow up. Amazed by what happened, Maleficent tries to escape with the girl, but is captured by the king’s guards made of metal that is her only weakness point. The girl Aurora runs back trying to hide, where she finds Maleficent’s wings kept in a glass box. She succeeds at breaking it, and the wings flap their way back to Maleficent, giving her the ability to fly and winning the battle, in which the king accidently dies. The movie ends with Aurora announced queen, and Maleficent reviving her world and getting rid of the evil she created.The movie portrays many themes, and deals with different values. Vengeance for instance, when evil takes over Maleficent and drives her to take evil acts. It also shows how someone is able to choose evil over good, and invest their power in the way they want. Prejudice is also shown through the movie, of how someone can judge another based on their looks, their abilities, and treat them differently based on that, which is why the kingdom attacked the neighboring state where Maleficent lives, because they have “magical powers, and they feared that they were different, and also because Maleficent has horns and unusual fairy wings, she was seen as an evil character, making her anti-hero in the movie.Other values are present as well, such as holding on to your anger, guilt, forgiveness, and redemption, yet the most powerful of all was the true love kiss, showing that true love does not necessarily mean a prince and a princess, a guy and a girl the old romantic way Disney used to portray in their tales. It also exists among family, and can be developed in other forms of romantic love, as well as loving your enemies, or who we think is our enemy.I consider Maleficent a well made and well acted life-lesson movie, where rue love and hate were shown for what they are: choices that we make as individuals. It teaches the viewer that “there is evil in this world, hatred, and betrayal”, and that we might drift from our paths at some point along the way due to certain circumstances, yet this does not define who we really are, and that if we have good inside us, it will always eventually show and it cannot die. It also breaks the typical idea of love and the form it takes.
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Maleficent tells the story of “Sleeping Beauty”, this time from Maleficent point of view. The movie tells the story of her fairy childhood, showing the powers she had and the good purpose she was using them for. It continues to tell that after being betrayed by the boy she loved for the sake of power, Maleficent loses her wings and, driven by vengeance, uses her powers for evil. She visits her ex-lover, now king, and sets a spell on his newly born daughter that will put her into death-like sleep on her sixteenth birthday, with no other way to be broken, but a true love’s kiss. The movie will then portray the development of the relation between Maleficent and the girl as she grows older. On her sixteenth birthday, the power of the spell puts the girl into sleep, leaving Maleficent in regret, because according to her, true love does not exist, and the girl was never supposed to wake up from her sleep. Meanwhile the three good fairies that raised the girl tried to wake her up by bringing a guy to kiss her, but he fails. Maleficent, sadly observing the process, cries and promises to always protect the girl, and leans down and kisses her on the forehead. The sleeping beauty wakes up, showing that the kiss was a true love kiss, the love Maleficent developed for the girl as she watched her grow up. Amazed by what happened, Maleficent tries to escape with the girl, but is captured by the king’s guards made of metal that is her only weakness point. The girl Aurora runs back trying to hide, where she finds Maleficent’s wings kept in a glass box. She succeeds at breaking it, and the wings flap their way back to Maleficent, giving her the ability to fly and winning the battle, in which the king accidently dies. The movie ends with Aurora announced queen, and Maleficent reviving her world and getting rid of the evil she created.The movie portrays many themes, and deals with different values. Vengeance for instance, when evil takes over Maleficent and drives her to take evil acts. It also shows how someone is able to choose evil over good, and invest their power in the way they want. Prejudice is also shown through the movie, of how someone can judge another based on their looks, their abilities, and treat them differently based on that, which is why the kingdom attacked the neighboring state where Maleficent lives, because they have “magical powers, and they feared that they were different, and also because Maleficent has horns and unusual fairy wings, she was seen as an evil character, making her anti-hero in the movie.Other values are present as well, such as holding on to your anger, guilt, forgiveness, and redemption, yet the most powerful of all was the true love kiss, showing that true love does not necessarily mean a prince and a princess, a guy and a girl the old romantic way Disney used to portray in their tales. It also exists among family, and can be developed in other forms of romantic love, as well as loving your enemies, or who we think is our enemy.I consider Maleficent a well made and well acted life-lesson movie, where rue love and hate were shown for what they are: choices that we make as individuals. It teaches the viewer that “there is evil in this world, hatred, and betrayal”, and that we might drift from our paths at some point along the way due to certain circumstances, yet this does not define who we really are, and that if we have good inside us, it will always eventually show and it cannot die. It also breaks the typical idea of love and the form it takes.